IN RE ADOPTION OF J---- G---- L----, JR.

No. 18238.

853 S.W.2d 433 (1993)

In re ADOPTION OF J____ G____ L____, JR. and B____ T____ L____, Minors. C____ D____ B____ and V____ A____ B____, Petitioners-Respondents, v. D____ E. L____ and E____ L____, Intervenors-Appellants.

Missouri Court of Appeals, Southern District, Division One.

May 18, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

G.H. Terando, Wilhoit, Edmundson, Terando & Hopkins, Poplar Bluff, for intervenors-appellants.

Mark A. Kennedy, Kennedy & Kennedy, Poplar Bluff, for petitioners-respondents.


CROW, Presiding Judge.

This appeal is the culmination of a contest between two married couples to adopt J____ G____ L____, Jr. (born September 1, 1983), and his brother, B____ T____ L____ (born January 9, 1986). None of the contestants is kin to the brothers, but each couple became acquainted with the brothers while they were in foster care by occasionally taking care of them as a favor to the foster parent.

The Dunklin County office of the Division of Family...

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